( 1416 ) 
That the folation of Salt of Tartar is not friendly to the 
ifiature either of Peas or Wheat, but agreeable or concor- 
dant to the nature of the Oats and Barley. 
That the Water of Saltpeter had not here any of the 
great Power or Vertue that I expefted, &c. 
' And that thefe fteepings did not farther any of the faid 
Grains in their growth and coming up, but raanifeftly and 
plainly retarded fome or raoft of them. 
Then I digged all of them up but three fpires of Barley, 
which I let ftand about a foot and a half, or two foot, one 
from another,which grew and encreafed fo exceedingly, that 
they had fixty,fixty five,and fixty feven ftalks apiece from their 
fingle Grain and Root, with every one an Ear on, and about 
40 or fomewhat more Corns apiece in th^ra, which increafe 
proceeded perhaps not fo much from the Grain having been 
fteeped in any Liquors, as from tlie fertility and goodiiefs 
of the Soil, and their competent diftance one from another. 
I obferved that new (hoots continually ftruck up from the 
Root 3 and that, as in the Eafi and Wefi Indies, there are 
Trees that always bears Blofroms,andFlowers,Green andRipe 
Vxmt at t!ie fame time, fo that here if the Envigorating heat 
of the Sun had not been cool'd and weakned by the ap* 
proach of the Winter Seafon , there would have con- 
tinually been new, ripe Corn, and empty Ears on the fame 
Root* 
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